CNN's Jill Dougherty reports on the U.S.-Russian stalemate as Edward Snowden, the admitted leaker of once-secret surveillance programs, apparently remains hold up in a transit area in Moscow's airport.

The latest news is that Mr. Snowden is stuck because cannot buy ticket without passport. His attorney Sarah Harrison entered negotiations with Tom Hanks' agents about possible movie deal tentatively called "Airport 2". At this moment is is now known how much progress has been made, except that the deal is going to be "lucrative".

Bravo Mr. Putin, Bravo. Our government can no longer effectively run their own house, so don't let them pressure you into doing something you don't want to in yours. I hope Snowden and Assange both make it to Ecuador and Wikileaks continues it's good works. When a people is kept in the dark, there is no hope. Enlightened people are the emissaries of hope. Thanks to both of them for shining a light and giving hope to those of us who have all but forsaken this system of government we now live in.

I fully stand with Vladimir Putin on this one. Let's just hope that he doesn't cave in to the right-wing thugs in Washington and allows Edward Snowden go wherever he wants. How great it is not to see the right-wing thugs in Washington get their way for one time!

Standoff? There is no standoff. Putin made it very clear yerterday: Russia DOES NOT CARE. Mr. Snowden did not commit any crime on Russian territory, and in fact, he even never entered Russia as he does not have a Russian visa. Nor did he made any act which is considered a crime under Russian Law. He is a free man and he is free to proceed on his jorney into a country of his chosing. Putin also made it very clear that Mr. Snowden is not interesting for Russian intelligence, FSB, etc., and they are not talking to him. At the end of his statement Mr. Putin said that being involved here is like shaving a pig: not much wool, but too much scream, basically useless.

If I were you jboh, I'd be ashamed to display my lack of intelligence by posting such comments like yours! Edward Snowden did the right thing and should never have been indicted in the first place as anyone with any sense of decency would know!

@Joseph McCarthy,get your head out of your nether regions bud..Snowden went to work for BOOZ for one reason and that's to bring the CIA,NSA down..The only way that traitor is going to stay with Putin in Russia is with a hole in the back of his head aka sniper shot,got it!!And you bud were probibly part of the reason behind the Patriot Act,Homeland Security indirectly in voting not once but twice in that imbecile from Texas in Bush...Remember if Bush would had followed up on that intel Clintons Intel team left his crew about terrorists hitting major cities stateside there probibly wouldn't had ever been a 9/11 but you know when you go outta town some 450 days in your first two years things obviously will go wrong and 9/11 was obviously just one of them right Joe McCarthy or are you still delushional thinking this Snowden weasel is a hero and if you do go hold hands with him in that Russian airport if yah got the stones to do it!!

I wonder, has our US government finally come to realize that Putin is NOT our "friend"? Putin bambozzled our government every since he came into power. Idiot, GWB, sat next to Putin at the Chinese Olympics and gushed praise for him (at the same moment, Putin's troops were invading the country of Georgia to "teach them a lesson"). Hillary embarassingly carried her "Reset Button" to Moscow, another diplomatic flop! Now, Obama and Kerry expect Putin to act totally different? Surprise! Putin is probably the wisest and most cunning world leader today, yet no one realizes this! What Putin wants. Putin gets! The West has no leader with such cunning achievements, NONE! Putin's huge dual pipeline under the Baltic Sea to send Russian gas to Europe is just one stunning achievement. Here we cannot build one small pipeline to get Canadian oil to the Gulf for export to China!!!
Putin is NOT our friend, and never will be! Wake up to this fact!

Im just saying Mr. Putin has a lever to stick it to us for a bit, I never said He was a friend.

June 26, 2013 at 8:02 am |

StanCalif

Other complete failures of US "foreign policy":
"Shock and Awe" to remove Sadaam from power in Iraq! What an achievement! Today, Iraq's best friend is Iran not us. Afghanistan, we installed a complete crook who now bitterly complains about us but has done nothing for his own people! Egypt, who knows where this will go, meanwhile Egypt's economy goes down the toilet! Job well done! It simply goes on and on. Removing dictators, simply on principles, has not worked and never will!

June 26, 2013 at 8:16 am |

StanCalif

I agree, Putin is "sticking it to us", so did China. Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are doing the same!
Yet all our politicians care about is fund raising! What the hell has happened to our country?

@StanCalif,ever hear about not only cutting foriegn aid but sanctions as well ..We don't need anyone even China and remember who Chinas biggest buyer of their cheap Chinese crap,us not Russia or anyone else..Just look how OPEC is starting to sweat because our consumption of their crude is down because of our increased production stateside the most in over 20 years..And remember who's country monetary system all countrys work with ours not the Euro or any one else's..In a nutshell we are still the most powerful nation that leads this world and eventually Snowden will come back here like it or not to face trial for espionage...

America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people.
During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America, is the only country ever, shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people.
In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced.
Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015.

@Joseph McCarthy,do you consider yourself a patriot,or an American that's in denile for what you did years ago that led to this voting for Bush...The Patriot Act,Homeland security has been in existance for over 10 years and because Pres.Obama signed extentions on both plus legitimately making it safer for all Americans and their rights,liberties you like most complain now !!Please explain if you're for these intrusive policies that Bush gave us because he screwed up in really securing this countrys borders after again getting intel that would of given us a head start on heading off a major terrorist plot,the plot that ended in 9/11 killing over 3000 people and starting an unfunded war with lies no less..Let me know why you're so hung op on that traitor in Snowden because besides being so delushional you and others must think nothing of someone handing out our classified Intel so they can use it against us later and obviously you either don't care for our country as a whole or possibly you don't reside in these states at all even with a name as that..Come out of your hole and explain why you think he's a hero because if another countrys people attacks us like in 9/11 maybe you can go thank him yourself if you can find him alive!!

June 26, 2013 at 10:55 pm |

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